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On Monday, I fished central Estero Bay with Scott Heiss, his brother, Steve Heiss, their Heiss, dad, Jerry Heiss, and Scott’s 10-year-old son, Nicholas. We had a good morning of fishing with live shrimp along the tree lines. Nicholas caught the biggest redfish at 22 inches, and we caught two other keepers at 19-and-one-half inches and 20 inches. The group also caught seven keeper mangrove snapper, and we released a 26-inch snook.

Paul Duguay and friends fished with me on Wednesday morning, 17 miles southwest of New Pass. We kept about 25 porgies around 16 inches and released a good many more. We also caught about 10 yellowtail snapper, but only one of those was a keeper, along with a keeper mangrove snapper. We released undersized gag grouper to 19 inches and red grouper shorts to 18 inches.

Brian Rodgers and Rodney Poole fished the mangrove shoreline of Estero Bay with me on a rainy Thursday morning. Brian got a 20-inch redfish on shrimp and the guys lost two larger ones that ran under the mangrove roots and broke off. They also caught six nice mangrove snapper, good-sized for the bay at 11 to 14 inches, along with two sheepshead, 13 and 14 inches long.

Fishing Saturday morning about 17 miles out of New Pass with Dan Slavenburg and friend, Ryan, we cast live shrimp to catch eight keeper mangrove snapper and a dozen whitebone porgies to 15 inches. We released lots of smaller mangs, short red grouper, yellowtail and an almaco jack.